Opinion-Reflections

Return-to-office mandates are a systemic failure. Treating human infrastructure with the same flawed logic as bad server maintenance is why IT is burning out.

Most organizations don’t notice burnout. They notice silence. By the time they do, it is already too late.

The Odido breach did not end when the systems were patched. It continued wherever abandoned domains, forgotten mailflows, and expired infrastructure were still trusted.

Week four or five at home. A heart attack in 2024, a stent, medication. On paper everything is stable. The pain disagrees.

Why the current blind race for AI adoption is replacing human judgment with algorithmic black boxes, leading to systemic fragility.

A phishing simulation showed that even when people know what to do, there is often no correct decision to make. Organisations respond by managing reactions instead of fixing the conditions that caused the problem.

When one person consistently carries operational recovery, troubleshooting and undocumented infrastructure knowledge, organisations mistake dependency for stability.